Positive estimation of the between-study variance in meta-analysis

South African Statistical Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 55-76

  Hartung, J ^a   Makambi, K H ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Attained confidence coefficients; Confidence bounds; Patnaik's approximation; Random effects model; Risk difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036964095     PISSN: 0038271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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